Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Broward Sheriff’s Office and School Board of Broward County to release footage taken at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, the day of the mass shooting that left 17 dead and 17 injured.

In an opinion authored by Judge Robert M. Gross, a divided appellate court upheld Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey R. Levenson’s ruling that surveillance video showing law enforcement’s response to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, was public record. Levenson had ordered the defendants to release the tapes to multiple media plaintiffs within 48 hours of the ruling.

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